Except that Microsoft have - They releases .net to the open source community as .net core.
Sorry, but no. You’re not dealing with Classic. That’s Retail.
And while Customer Support might tell you those things in 2019, this is the same company that despite all the complaints, put the boost in.
So no, don’t act like random spoutings from a company that’s been abusing it’s playerbase for years, are actually not precisely provided so that people like you will repost them and give them cover for their money making.
Even if they’re compromised accounts, the existence of the boost is WHY they exist in 2021 in TBC. If Blizzard wanted to stop the 58 farming, they could quite easily do it. Just remove the boost.
Don’t shill for them when they’re clearly trying to spin BS.
EDIT: Re-reading what you quoted, I see the issue. You misread what I meant by “want that money”.
I know that Blizzard doesn’t make money from the bots. But Blizzard wants that money for boosts from you. From me. From everyone playing.
For them, the money they make from players is far more important than the money they’ll lose from quitting players, because they’re not considering this a long term gamble.
If they were not just trying to prop up quarterly earnings, they’d have removed the boost when they saw it was an issue. They know its an issue. The fact that the boost remains, means they made a cost benefit analysis that to them says they’ll make more money from having the boost remain, than they’ll lose from players quitting.
It’s a horrible attitude, but it’s the ATK way.
That’s because they’ve never and will never sell the code libraries. They didn’t release the code base for Visual Studio, or SQL Server, or even Windows 10. It’d be the equivalent of Blizzard, making LUA open source… owait…
Do you think the botters are legitimately paying for boosts from their own pockets?
Calling people who are providing you with facts “shills” is a quick way to lose your forum privileges.
THIS is the right take ^^^
Read please. Selling the boost to real players is more important to them than fixing the bots.
I tend to skim the posts that largely consist of conspiracy theories and false narratives.
I think you could have stopped here, and your statement would have been accurate. You didn’t actually read because what I wrote wasn’t a false narrative. You just assumed that because it was negative to Blizzard’s business practices, it was somehow “wrong”.
What I wrote is not only blatantly obvious, but actually confirmed in their behaviour. They know the boosts are allowing abuse by bots. However, their business decision is that the boosts are more important as a money making capability than their detriment.
Players disagree, but from a business standpoint that’s their calculus. We don’t have their numbers, so we can’t see the why but if something is losing you more money than it makes, and it’s not integral to the player experience, you cut it immediately. The boost remains, therefore from a business standpoint, they’re clearly making more money off players than the boost is costing them in lost accounts. The thing you linked even makes it clear that’s the calculus they take on.
So it’s not ‘conspiracy theories and false narratives’. It’s a clear business choice.
But sure… continue to believe that the boosts are having no effect on the malicious and destructive botting situation.
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